寿梨庵
Still hot enough to open the bottle at the end of summer 🎇.
Delicate microbubbles. Lactic acid fizzy drink, grapefruit + orange + apricot flavors. I didn't detect the strong lemon-like acidity I felt last year.
It's been a while since I've had it, but I think it's a solid honored chrysanthemum. Delicious 😋.
I thought the alcohol content was high like other sakes that seem to have been brewed around the same time, and the gravity was obviously low. It is quite drinkable.
The bitterness in the second half is also strong, and the previous lower-alcohol version seems more widely acceptable. Overall, it is calmer than before, but I think I miss the uninhibited, positive impression it used to have...
It's tasty enough, though 😌.
I felt that the high-alcohol construction of these days was rather favorable to the higher-end liquors such as Hello, but the regular line such as this one? I thought the low-alcohol version was more typical of Kouei Kiku 🤔.
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